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As noted in the driver release announcement, this is just our first
release of the code and there remain significant possible performance
improvements that can be made. Some of them are low-level chip
optimziations, while others are ongoing efforts to improve the Mesa
project as well. Right now, there aren't any performance tuning
parameters available for the driver.

I'd take ANY Windows site review with a grain of salt (A lot of them,
actually- but not for the reasons you'd normally think...) because Intel
has said that they've not got the full support in the drivers that are
shipping for the motherboard and that a later driver would have full
support of everything. No use of the T&L. No use of the independant
rendering pipelines. It's being used as a GMA 950 with those drivers.

Of course it's going to perform very badly. The GMA 950 performed
VERY badly.

What I want to know is if with everything turned on, is it lackluster
or does it stink on ice. Nobody can tell anyone that just yet.

We hope to have our initial results out next week after the official release of Fedora Core 6. Communicating with Intel's Linux driver team, there aren't any performance tuning options available at this time and there is still much work ahead.

My Intel DG965WH (I got two of them, actually) don't run at all, because of incompatibilities between the Board's BIOS and a certain charge of MDT/MCI DDR2-SDRAM. Neither Intel, nor MDT are willing to shell out information about when or if the BIOS-fix for the widely known issue will be implemented, whilst other manufacturers provided updates to the BIOS of their boards weeks ago already.

I'm really, really pissed by now.

If anyone of you posting here is in the position to get to this information, I'd be glad to have it - or rather more if one could provide me with a beta-BIOS of some sort to make my damn boxes running at last (all the hardware is lying around here for 4 weeks or so now, that really is frustrating - but I can't afford new components as of now), but that'd be too cool to come true, I guess.